Job Description
12 Month Fixed Term Contract
At abrdn, our purpose is to enable our clients to be better investors.
Clients worldwide trust us to find future-fit investment opportunities to deliver the outcomes they want. Our technology and insight help empower them to make better decisions, while the powerful partnerships we build help to enhance the expertise that we offer. And by enabling clients to invest responsibly, it helps us to build a better world.
About the role
This role will report directly to the UK Financial Reporting & Controls Manager and will be responsible for ensuring key financial and regulatory reporting deliverables are produced to a high standard and on a timely basis. This extends to ensuring that a robust control environment and clear process documentation exists to validate financial data, support key financial outcomes and cross training initiatives.
This role will also be expected to support and where required lead team and group wide projects and work collaboratively across the team, wider finance function and external business areas to deliver insight and support business decision making.
Month end reporting – Collation and input of month end journals, as well as timely and well understood financial analytics to provide insight and support business decision making. This includes working collaboratively across the finance function and beyond to understand key inputs and trends within the financial results.
Quarter end reporting – Plan and complete all board, regulatory and group reporting outputs where required including succinct analytics for presentation to senior business partners. This includes managing expectations of senior partners regarding the delivery of key reporting outputs.
Year end reporting – Support and deliver timely inputs to the group reporting process, as well as plan and complete statutory reporting outputs. This includes coordinating the delivery of information to the auditors.
Projects – Where required support and lead on team and group wider projects to support the strategic direction of the finance function.
Technical resolution – Interpret key accounting and regulatory technical matters for presentation and agreement with the UK Financial Reporting & Controls Manager.
Processes & control – Prepare and maintain key process documentation for reporting processes and ensure robust controls are in place to support key reporting outcomes. This includes reporting reconciliations and ensuring processes are continuously challenged to deliver efficiencies and make valuable contributions across the finance function.
Partner engagement – Working collaboratively with peers across the finance function and wider business areas to deliver business insight and contribute to a best in class finance function.
Learning & development – Taking responsibility for developing both technical and softer skills to ensure continuous personal development and deliver insight and make valuable contributions across the finance function.
About the candidate requirements
Ideally a qualified accountant or qualified by experience.
Asset management experience preferable but not essential.
Technical and regulatory knowledge desirable.
Takes personal accountability for high quality outputs and timely delivery.
Self-starter who is willing to learn and take on new challenges.
Commercial competence and ability to challenge trends and form expectations.
Credibility with partners (Communication and confidence).
Ability to work optimally as part of a team to inspire, share and listen to ideas.
Organisational skills with an ability to prioritise work and manage expectations.
Problem solver who is willing to challenge and deliver value adding outcomes.
Strong IT / analytical skills (Word, excel, systems experience preferable).
Our benefits
There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.
When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal.
Our business
Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs.
An inclusive way of working
Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.
At abrdn we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.
An inclusive culture
, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability – please let us know and we’ll be happy to help.
We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.
If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.